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Tips for Correcting Galley Proofs
General Tips
- Read proofs multiple times, emphasizing separate aspects in each pass.
- Save original proofs for collective markup. Do preliminary proofing on the copies
- Take extra care in final markup to ensure corrections are clear:
- Have co-authors check the markup for clarity.
- Use color coding.
- Rewrite text in margins.
- Save copy of submitted, corrected galley proof to check final printing.
Specific Tips
- Check for:
- Consistent italicization and boldfacing.
- Scientific content of text (logical flow).
- Numerical comparisons between text and tables (values, ranges, percent errors, etc.).
- Typographical and grammatical errors in text.
- Running titles.
- Match between citations in text, tables, and figures with reference list.
- Match of citations in text with tables, figures, sections (i.e. mismatch in numbering?).
- Tables - layout, data entries, footnotes.
- Figures - captions, legibility, alignments.
- References - tedious formatting, complete information, special characters in authors' names, consistent abbreviation of journals.
- Recheck references by comparison with xerox copies or WebofScience (which nonetheless contains occasional errors). Reference copying from other papers without independent checking is dangerous, causing a chain reaction of error propagation.
Examples
- Click the links to see examples of GOOD and BAD corrected galley proofs. (Coming Soon)
If error detection rate is d%, the following tables gives the number of independent passes (n) required to ensure 99.9% of errors are corrected:
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| Southeastern Theoretical Chemistry Association |
| Professor David Dixon |
| Date: | 16 May 2008 |
| Location: | The University of Alabama |
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